2013年11月23—25日,由暨南大学文学院历史系主办的欧洲中世纪早期史研究学术研讨会在广州举行。来自中国社会科学院世界历史研究所、北京大学、中国人民大学、南开大学、武汉大学和天津师范大学等单位的四十多名学者参加了此次会议。会议期间,学者们围绕着从古代晚期到中世纪早期是历史的断裂还是缓慢的转变、中世纪早期的“王国”、“国家”、“民族”、“帝国”等观念及其相互关系、拜占庭与西欧的互动、当时诸多编年史记载是否可信、修道思想的解读等问 From November 23 to 25, 2013, the Symposium on Early Medieval European Medieval Symposia hosted by the Department of History of Jinan University was held in Guangzhou. More than 40 scholars from the Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University, Renmin University of China, Nankai University, Wuhan University and Tianjin Normal University participated in the conference. During the conference, scholars centered on the historical break or slow transition from the late ancient period to the early Middle Ages. In the early Middle Ages, the concepts of “kingdom”, “state”, “nation”, “empire” And their interrelationships, the interaction between Byzantium and Western Europe, the historical records of many chronologies were credible and the interpretation of monasticism asked